A History of Jay Z’s Questionable but Entertaining Twitter Game: ‘I Promise I’m Not Drunk’

Jay Z is an outlier in the world of celebrities on social media. On Twitter (he goes by @S_C_ for his real name, Shawn Carter) his avatar is simply the color teal, he’s tweeted only 262 times (Justin Bieber, for example, has tweeted 30,700 times), and he follows nobody — not even Beyoncé.

He also has a unique style of tweeting that can best be described as stream-of-consciousness meets technophobe dad. It’s adorable. And hilarious.

In 2013, just days after the release of his album Magna Carta Holy Grail, he went on a Twitter tear, answering dozens of fans’ questions over several hours. One fan was Aziz Ansari, who had a hard-hitting question.

He tweeted only six times in 2016 and then a few more times earlier this year. But on June 15, when he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (by Barack Obama, no less), he let loose with a string of tweets, thanking seeminglyevery rapper.